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Pl.no.: 4815=6

Shown here is the titlepage from a reprint of the Roman geographer Pomponius Mela's Description of the World. He described the world as it was perceived by the ancient Romans.

His work is presented as a circumnavigation of the known world at that…

This is the bookstamp of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

This is the signature of Dr. Samual Max (Shemu’el Mosheh) Melamed, an American writer and journalist. He received his Ph.D in Jewish philosophy and was considered to be one of the highest ranking Jewish journalists of his time.

Dr. Samuel…

This is the bookstamp of David Meldola, a Hebraist, Talmudist and de facto chief rabbi of the London Sephardic community from 1828 until his death in 1853. Meldola was born in 1797 in Leghorn, where he was ordained as rabbi.

He was the eldest son…

During a four months' residence in a valley of the Marquesas.


This is the first American edition of Melville's novel set in the Marquesas Islands.

A sequel to the "Residence in the Marquesas Islands"

This is the first English edition of the sequel to Melville's Typee.

For voice and piano.

Advertisement for "River City Contemporary Writers Series: David Wagoner" sponsored by Memphis State University.

Pl. no.: 5394 -- Ildefonso Alier